Creating new masters in MyFavorite stencil

[HankW]

I placed this question in another Visio group with know response. My
question is not as sophisticated as the ones I find here so I thought it
might be an easy solution.

I created a new master. Using the "Cubicals (US Units) Panel" master, I
create a cubical of the dimension I need often. After grouping the elements
of the new drawing, I drag and drop this object onto "My Shapes/Favorites"
stencil.

When I start a new drawing and attempt to use the new masters in My Shapes/
Favorites I get something other than what I created. When I drag the new
"cubical master" onto the new drawing they appears as over lapping square
line drawings and the squares are offset a little to each other. A 60" long
by 2" wide panel with a gray fill is now single lines and now coloring.

Can you help? How am I suppose to create and save masters if it different
than what the Visio Help text provides?

 

[Al Edlund]

It kinda sounds like you may have ungrouped the master shape before
performing your changes and then regrouped the objects to save as your new
master. Part of the issue here might be that when working with an addin
there are often properties assigned to a group that you lose when you
ungroup them, thus you don't get the behavior you expect when you try to use
the new master.
al